The ultimate Minecraft Pocket Edition recipe guide - Raw materials
Raw hide (Updated for 0.15)
Minecraft - Pocket Edition is all about building ridiculous architectural wonders by finding raw resources in the world and crafting them into handy tools and building materials.
You can turn some wood and stone into a hardy pickaxe, or melt sand down into glass. You can make bookshelves, or dye wool, or forge a golden apple, or cut rough cobblestone blocks into posh stone bricks.
In our handy charts below, and on the other pages, you can find out how to make everything in the world of Minecraft, and how to find the right materials.
Crafting - Smelting - Raw MaterialsRaw materials
If you're looking for the materials that are used in the crafting or smelting recipes on the other pages, you'll often need to find those resources in the wild.
The list below will help you find those naturally occurring materials in your randomly generated Minecraft world.
BlocksWood - punch trees to collect wood. Comes in many varieties, but they can be used interchangeably while crafting | |
Cobblestone - dig into the earth with a pickaxe to collect different types of stone such as cobblestone, granite, and diorite | |
Sand - common material, found by water and in desert biomes | |
Dirt - found absolutely everywhere, and comes in different varieties | |
Wool - use shears on sheep to obtain wool. It can be dyed to make different colours | |
Iron ore - found beneath the ground. Requires a stone pickaxe or better to mine | |
Gold ore - found deep beneath the ground. Requires an iron pickaxe or better to mine | |
Diamond ore - found beneath the ground. Requires an iron pickaxe or better to mine | |
Obsidian - made when lava source is cooled with water | |
Cactus - found growing in desert biomes |
Items
Material | Description |
Clay - found in sand and sometimes underwater. Best harvested with a shovel | |
Snowball - use a shovel on snow to make snowballs | |
Flint - sometimes produced when mining into gravel | |
Flowers and grass - found everywhere in Minecraft | |
Red mushroom - found randomly in the world | |
Brown mushroom - found randomly in the world | |
Glowstone dust - break Glowstone Clusters in The Nether | |
Milk - use a bucket on a cow | |
Lava - use a bucket on lava | |
Water - use a bucket on a source of water | |
Lapis Lazuli - mine Lapis Lazuli ore with an iron pickaxe or better | |
Redstone - mine redstone ore with an iorn pickaxe or better | |
Coal - mine coal ore | |
Nether quartz - mine Nether quartz ore in The Nether with an iron pickaxe or better | |
Nether wart - found growing in The Nether | |
Name tag - found in chests | |
Saddle - found in chests |
Mob drops
Material | Description |
Bone - dropped by skeletons when killed | |
String - dropped by spiders when killed | |
Spider eye - dropped by spiders when killed | |
Rotten flesh - dropped by zombies | |
Ink sac - dropped by squids | |
Magma cream - dropped by magma cubes in The Nether | |
Blaze rod - dropped by blazes in The Nether | |
Ghast tear - dropped by ghasts in The Nether | |
Gold nugget - dropped by zombie pigmen | |
Slimeball - dropped by slimes | |
Gun powder - kill a creeper | |
Feather - kill a chicken | |
Leather - kill a cow | |
Rabbit hide - kill a rabbit | |
Rabbit's foot - kill a rabbit | |
Mob heads - dropped by skeletons, wither skeletons, zombies, creepers, and the player when killed by a charged creeper |
Food and farming
Material | Description |
Sugar cane - natual plant | |
Seeds - sometimes appear when you tap once on the ground with the hoe | |
Melon seeds - harvest a melon in the jungle biome | |
Pumpkin seeds - harvest a pumpkin stem | |
Beetroot seeds - harvest beetroots in villages | |
Wheat - grows from seeds | |
Meon - grows from melon seeds | |
Pumpkin - grows from pumpkin seeds | |
Beetroot - grows from beetroot seeds | |
Carrot - dropped by zombies | |
Potato - dropped by zombies | |
Poisonous potato - sometimes found when harvesting potato crops, causes poison | |
Apple - found in some trees | |
Raw beef - kill a cow | |
Raw chicken - kill a chicken | |
Raw pork - kill a pig | |
Raw rabbit - kill a rabbit | |
Raw mutton - kill a sheep | |
Fish - caught with a fishing rod | |
Raw salmon - caught with a fishing rod | |
Pufferfish - caught with a fishing rod | |
Clownfish - caught with a fishing rod | |
Egg - dropped by chickens |